Global Patent Index - EP 1314129 A2

EP 1314129 A2 20030528 - CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM

Title (en)

CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM

Title (de)

ZEICHENERKENNUNGSSYSTEM

Title (fr)

SYSTEME DE RECONNAISSANCE DE CARACTERES

Publication

EP 1314129 A2 20030528 (EN)

Application

EP 01968239 A 20010830

Priority

  • JP 2000262096 A 20000831
  • US 0126927 W 20010830

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO0219248A2] In the prior art, in character recognition of a language having many characters, such as Japanese, a feature vector is extracted from an input pattern, distances between the feature vector and reference vectors are calculated, and a character corresponding to a reference vector having the smallest distance value is selected as a recognized character. However, in the character recognition of a language having many characters, since the number of the reference vectors to be compared is large, there is a limit in improvement of processing speed of the character recognition. In the present invention, reference vectors corresponding to target characters are classified into plurality of classes based on occurrence frequencies of characters. When distances between the feature vector and the reference vectors are calculated, a comparison is sequentially made from the reference vectors of a class having a high character occurrence frequency, so that the processing speed of the character recognition is improved.

IPC 1-7

G06K 1/00

IPC 8 full level

G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/68 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP KR US)

G06F 18/211 (2023.01 - EP); G06V 10/75 (2022.01 - KR); G06V 30/1912 (2022.01 - EP US); G06V 30/242 (2022.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

BE DE FR GB

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 0219248 A2 20020307; WO 0219248 A3 20020516; WO 0219248 A9 20020711; CN 100501764 C 20090617; CN 1388947 A 20030101; DE 60128706 D1 20070712; DE 60128706 T2 20080124; EP 1314129 A2 20030528; EP 1314129 A4 20050601; EP 1314129 B1 20070530; JP 2002074268 A 20020315; JP 4674778 B2 20110420; KR 100843504 B1 20080704; KR 20020081210 A 20021026; TW 540007 B 20030701

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 0126927 W 20010830; CN 01802662 A 20010830; DE 60128706 T 20010830; EP 01968239 A 20010830; JP 2000262096 A 20000831; KR 20027005587 A 20020430; TW 90121484 A 20010830